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Was just thinking this morning that it was the type of meeting that gets you hooked on Speedway... was a lovely night weather wise, healthy crowd, close score throughout, great racing and a narrow home victory in the last race. For Oxford, Tungate put in a true number 1's performance, Schroek is less than convincing as a team manager, making some bizarre decisions. The big question of the night was... is Magic back? He was still very slow out of the start but showed some remarkable commitment to be Oxford's match winner with a couple of world class rides in his last 2. Leicester, business as usual I'm afraid, Fricke and Masters blowing hot and cold, Dickson making a ruthless decision to replace Becker in only his 2nd ride. All in all, although we got pipped at the line, I drove home happy after an evening of top quality entertainment!

Allen better rider than Zach Cook

I'm sure that's not in accordance with the rules. Which is probably why a Poole fan suggested it

Luke went in hard mate was a bit stiff yesterday and today but all good fence did it's job with no major injury

Don't you just love him https://x.com/SpeedwayGB/status/1797966964549365788?t=6nVcAPvreA07G3_UjqwXMw&s=19

This is what is wrong with some of the rules in speedway, we can't use Scott Nicholls again because of the 8 day rule but we can use Sam Masters who rode for the opposition last week in the same meeting as Scott. I suppose the only benefit of this rule is we can't use Batch this week!

BSPA / SCB can't do that, all they can do is give Covatti a 28 day ban for withholding his services, which allows Plymouth to use a guest. Once 28 days is up, they'd only be allowed a 75% guest if Covatti doesn't return. This is not a similar situation to Kennett, he got injured in the first match & they used a guest all year (as allowed by the regulations - can't blame Plymouth for that) this is different as Covatti is riding elsewhere but not for Plymouth, so more like the Laguta situation imo

I said this before, as much as Osbourne is what he is he isn’t breaking the law and all his decisions are business decisions, if speedway was a cash cow he would be working in our favour, the council will do whatever the cash dictates,, council support for a track closed or otherwise means nothing but on the other foot speedway needs the council to run, it all boils down to money unfortunately and it rarely falls in speedways favour, even in oxford’s case if it wasn’t for the greyhound guy buying the rights to the stadium would speedway even be back ? Unfortunately moral people don’t run the world

I have attended 3 Glasgow home matches this season, 2 at Redcar and 2 at Edinburgh. Berwick haven't been the visitors in any of the matches I've been at. That's also more meetings than I've been to at Berwick (shifts and family play a part in where I am at certain times). Just because you aren't wearing a team coat or polo shirt doesn't mean you don't attend as a neutral.

I said last night to a few people that any Leicester fans who were there or bought the livestream, must be gutted that they don't get racing like that week in and out. Us Oxford fans are so bloody lucky after years of closure to have 3 good teams where every rider at every level gives their all on a well prepared track, all in fron of decent crowds.

It's the system that's wrong, not the riders who agree to ride.

Wouldn’t have thought you would want a NL guest as the last time they did it they WON at edinburgh LOL

That's no excuse, as soon as it was obvious Pawlicki was on form, Ermolenko should have been planning to use him early, so he wouldn't get 4 on the trot later. Another option would be using Lampart in heat 13 as r/r to give Pawlicki a rest, then use Pawlicki in heat 14. Flint wouldn't have needed a 4th ride.

Yeah pretty sure Danny Bird's ban hasn't started because he didn't pay the fine

Watching the “big” riders doesn’t necessarily mean entertainment in my opinion as can be seen by some of the crap we sometimes witness on Eurosport. Last Sunday’s under 21 final proved that Ashfield can produce fantastic racing without the need for big names. I’ve never been a fan of leaving the championship due to the possible pitfalls you’ve mentioned.

Toft should have been replaced weeks ago,but no forward thinking again,and now it leaves us going back over the same old ground and using Lambert again.Nothing against the lad,but Lynn just do the same old thing year in year out and it's grinding the fans down.We have so many points to play but we always seem happy just to get through another year.

He's not really what we need, but he'd be better than guests IMO.

Only 2 Championship clubs voted against the reduced points limit - Poole and Glasgow - Fact.

I think stuff said in the heat of the moment during a meeting is probably a red herring. However I suspect he's more likely to end up at Lynn or BV as he's ridden for those before, I expect he's already been sounded out by both. Highly unlikely he's coming over yet anyway with Poland, Sweden & GP's all in full swing. Ipswich need someone ASAP really, nobody can replace Doyle but guests and R/R are so unreliable.

Wow a young rider in speedway has been replaced by another young rider in speedway! It's been happening for years in all teams. Moving on........

My point being no one was talking about it, before meeting began.

I wouldn't normally come down from London for this fixture, but its going to be my first visit to Poole this season, to watch Vinnie. I've seen him a couple of times for the Cubs and the main difference this year is that he is staying on the bike. I hope it works out for him and a generous local helps him out machinery wise. Think this will be a comfortable home win by 16-20 points.

Do you honestly believe he swans in over here , rides an old nail at half speed , picks up very little in wages and then wonder's back out again. I'm not going to defend some of his riding and poor performances but I don't believe for 1 minute that he is not taking it seriously.

I have to say the Oxford track has been superb ever since the club returned. Cracking racing almost every week - helped somewhat by Oxford having quite a few entertaining riders in Nicholls, Wright, Tungate, Harris, etc., they all throw the bike around. They might not always win races, but they certainly give everything. Oxford also widened the track and made significant changes from when it last used in 2007. Not that it was ever boring before, but it's superb now.

I’ve said all I’m going to on this GM otherwise I’ll just end up repeating myself. I don’t see a big issue, others do which is fair enough it’s up to them. Anyway uppa Witches! A result I certainly wasn’t expecting. Still a job to be done but if we can get over the line, it gives us a great opportunity to get the team sorted and have a good crack at Sheffield in September to retain the trophy.

It was Magic !

To be fair, you missed a superb meeting!

love his enthusiasm.

Great from Blodorn last night and what a character he is too! Exactly the type of guy we need in British Speedway and I hope he keeps getting better and better!!

He only has one Dinky toy, never let's go of it.

Clueless from Birmingham. Why was Pawlicki not in heat 8?

Insurance or not the fans have come together to help Andrew and Steve to put it right ,speaks volumes .

'Banned' 'failing' 'despite' 'evidence' - all a little over dramatic me thinks. How about: The standard 7 day sickness protocol, as per SCB regulations, will apply to Dan Thompson who has covid.

Might result in a scrum to attend... I'll get me coat....

Basically the rule contradicts itself. first it says you MUST use a rising star rider. But at same time you can use R/R meaning you are not fielding a RS

Obviously pleased with a Bears win and a solid team performance but it was a really poor watch. Every race was just about decided after bend 2 lap 1. Think we saw 2 passes in the 15 heats. They showed a replay of Heat 2 and I thought it was in slow motion but it was just the 2 lads at the back tootling round to try and stay on. I know the rain caused some issues but track didn’t produce any meaningful racing all night. On the plus side, good stream from Plymouth despite a few technical issues.

Or maybe speedway finished with him

You're right, he was hit with another financial penalty, although the SCB didn't disclose the details themselves: https://www.scbgb.co.uk/news.php?extend.166

If they Lynn don’t sign Zack Cook we might as well close for the season it’s a no brainer sign him asap

Well done to the Oxford promotion for producing a good race track! I wasn't there but heard enough good things about the place last night which is one of the few positives coming out of british speedway. Happy with the bonus point and running the meeting down to a last hear decider. If only our little distant american cousin decided to show up then we may have actually won! God knows who will replace him if he gets replaced at all, I know the owners pushed for him to sign for the club so I think its matter of convincing them as well.

I don’t think part of Sam’s “pre planned programme” involved him going over to tell Pawlicki before the meeting that he planned on replacing him in heat 14 with Leon Flint. He certainly also didn’t pre plan to have Cook touching the tapes and using Pawlicki in heat 3. Much has been said about the team spirit in the Ipswich camp and how much of a close group they are. I don’t think Ipswich would touch Lambert with a barge pole personally. He doesn’t fit what they have there.

I don’t get this we prepare the track because of weather predictions.Just prepare the track as for a normal match,because if it happens to rain the riders won’t ride anyway.They always finish up with dry slick tracks(I feel that’s what the riders want anyway)

Great effort from the guest Blodorn and also Rew - Emil you expected him to probably do that kind of score - also good to see win no 2 for Jenkins, no room for complacency however for Thursday!

Apparently it is not allowed to have a rider take four rides in succession.

Because your team manager is inept.

It went out of date in the winter I believe, so was taken out, improved/fixed/re beaned whatever was done to it, and refitted. It’s definitely better than an air fence in my opinion having watched plenty crashes at plenty tracks, although of course both have pros and cons, depends how you hit it etc.

I’m sure we could manage to get him on a 5. Think they call it the Tarrasenko rule.

I remember Reg well, he was one of my favourite riders at the time, always used to think he had a classy name. A good solid smooth middle of the order man. A great innings ro get to 97 Reg. And a decent bloke to talk with. RIP REg and thanks for the years of entertainment !

Very personable, modest, level headed young man as well a talent on a Speedway bike. His family must be very proud of him along with Darcy Ward and all his sponsors. For 18 years old he has been deeply impressive. Good on ya young Tate.

Great news, should add a few on the attendance, especially from Sheffield to support 2 Tigers legends